The victorian Period

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The Victorian Period and The 19th century

(1832-1920)

made by: Emma van Dijk, Oscar van Poll van Jaarsvelt, Yonah Angenent, Nizar Jabri

table of contents

• What was going on in life back then?
• What was the Victorian Period a reaction to?
• Which genres/subjects/styles were important?
• 2 famous authors and their best-known works.
• Fun and interesting facts.

What do you know about
the Victorian Period?

What was going on in life back then?

• Queen Victoria, and why was she so important?
• a time of changes
  
• new inventions 
• English population
• Move to the city

When did queen Victoria rule?

1. 1840-1902
2. 1837-1901
3. 1831-1905
4. 1835-1903

How does the Victorian period follow the previous time period?

• The previous time
• What is the difference?

the Victorians though that the romantic put too much emphasis on...

1. the story behind the art
2. the subject they were writing/painting about
3. how to make the art
4. other people's opinions on their art

genres/subjects/styles

• Famous books 
• styles (realism)
• subjects 

       (strove to reproduce nature as it was, not as it was imagined or idealized.)

• Literary movements in the Victorian period 
  

Did the writers in the Victorian Period strive to reproduce nature as it was, or nature as it was imagined?

1. Imagined
2. neither
3. both
4. realistic

famous authors and their best-known works

• Charles Dickinson 
• The Christmas carol
• What is the book about
• why is the book important for the Victorian Period?

famous authors and their best-known works

• Thomas Hardy
• wrote a lot of famous books 
• Tess of the d’Urbervilles, and what is the book about?
• why is the book important for the Victorian Period?

What are the names of the 3 spirits in The Christmas Carol?

Fun and Interesting FACTS

1. British empire
2. mourning rings
3. Hypnotism, spiritualism, divination
4. Taxidermy
5.  black 
6. Freakshows
7. picture of the dead
8. Gothic
9. ankles

What do you now know about
the Victorian Period?

The End.